Archive for the ‘iPhone’ Category

Opera Mini now the number one free download in all 22 App Stores — Engadget

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Opera Mini now the number one free download in all 22 App Stores — Engadget.

That said, I agree with John Gruber when he writes on Daring Fireball:

Worst of all: scrolling. The iPhone uses a heuristic when you flick to scroll, such that if your finger is mostly moving up or down (or left or right) it locks you into that dimension when scrolling a view — such as a zoomed-in web page — that could be scrolled in any dimension. The effect is that when you’re zoomed in on a column of text in MobileSafari and flick “up” to scroll down, the view moves straight down, even if your flick gesture was a few degrees off. On Opera Mini, however, scrolling a zoomed-in view moves in exactly the direction of your flick gesture. The result is that scrolling an Opera Mini page feels like sliding a sheet of ice on an oil slick.

Opera Mini Browser Approved for iPhone

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Opera today announced its popular mobile browser, Opera Mini has been approved for iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store. Opera Mini will be available as a free download within 24 hours, depending on market.

via Approved.

PC World – SDK Showdown: Apple IPhone vs. Google Android

Friday, April 25th, 2008

PC World – SDK Showdown: Apple IPhone vs. Google Android

Jason Cline, a senior software engineer at Web application developer Sitepen, says that the broad differences between the iPhone and Android SDKs are related to trade-offs between greater freedom and greater accessibility.

For this blog’s audience, the key difference may be that you’re guaranteed a level playing field when you develop for iPhone, but Android will run on disparate platforms resulting in heterogenous device capabilities and quirks.